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Were you able to get back up? How? Would you be able to do the same in 2020?
My first rock bottom was caused by depression and anxiety fully hitting me post-college, a tough job that wasn’t going well, then my longterm girlfriend (who I planned on marrying) cheating on me and breaking up over text message. Full on panic attacks, moving back home, suicidal ideation, the whole works. Therapy, exercise, and medication with SSRIs brought me out of the funk. I had a strong support network which made it easier.
My second rock bottom was during a period of intense professional stress, that through a strange sequence of events, almost resulted in serious legal consequences and potentially prison. Was some very dark days with similar suicidal ideation, panic attacks, etc. But I came out of it far stronger with much higher risk tolerance and knowledge of myself and capabilities.
Was I homeless? Tortured? Disabled? No. But for me, it was rock bottom, and I don’t want to be there again.
This comment seems to list all my homeless sites:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804929
2020 is proving especially challenging for the homeless population. The pandemic has made things very hard for homeless people of late.
Libraries are currently closed in many places, as are eateries with wifi and so forth. Some shelters and soup kitchens have shut down during the pandemic. It's pretty brutal at the moment.
But things like tablets are cheaper than when I first became homeless and websites are generally optimized to work well on smartphones and tablets, which was not true when I was first on the street. So there are ways in which it is easier than ever to figure out how to problem solve and create an income from the street and get your life back.
U will throw in this piece, which I didn't write but it's about me:
Homeless to housed: Her virtual life helped her out of homelessness
Everyone has their own personal rock bottom and you can’t know if you’ll hit a lower one later. My first rock bottom was caused by depression and anxiety fully hitting me post-college, a tough job that wasn’t going well, then my longterm girlfriend (who I planned on marrying) cheating on me and breaking up over text message. Full on panic attacks, moving back home, suicidal ideation, the whole works. Therapy, exercis…
I spent nearly six years homeless. I got back into housing about 2.5 years ago. I started multiple websites while homeless and I still run multiple websites, some of which are pertinent to this problem space. This comment seems to list all my homeless sites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804929 2020 is proving especially challenging for the homeless population. The pandemic has made things very hard for home…
I spent nearly six years homeless. I got back into housing about 2.5 years ago. I started multiple websites while homeless and I still run multiple websites, some of which are pertinent to this problem space. This comment seems to list all my homeless sites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804929 2020 is proving especially challenging for the homeless population. The pandemic has made things very hard for home…
Thank you for the reading material. I believe I'm going to find myself in a similar situation soon and having those resources could really improve my chances of recovery.
If you can at all avoid homelessness, that's better. I have seen many conversations on r/homeless and r/almosthomeless where people said "I expect to be homeless in x weeks/months" and were encouraged to find answers before their time ran out and they did. It's much, much easier to problem solve while still housed.
If homelessness absolutely cannot be avoided, make sure to read the following posts before it's too late (because things like getting a mailing address beforehand is very helpful):
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/prepping-to...
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and...
Best of luck.
I started to go on hikes and travel alone just to escape proximity with this woman. Started drinking regularly.
I compartmentalize everything in my life, but my family life started to affect my work life. I started fantasizing getting a job in a foreign country to escape. Contemplated suicide many times, but I couldn't that to my kid.
Luckily, I met an incredible woman on a hike in Norway. Came back home, filed for divorce and moved out. I am getting better slowly.
I was a technician doing industrial microcomputer repairs with that v=ir mentality and life got impossible. Somehow I found it in myself to pray for faith and was rewarded with a satori experience. That's more than 30 years ago now. My life changed a lot.